Improvement in chair-seating



`MORRIS KUHN.

f Improvement in Chair Seating'.

10,121,112 'Patented Nov. 21,1871.

MORRIS KOEN, OF HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO HEVISELF AND ALBERT L. MNSON,

OF NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR-SEATING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,112, dated November 21, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS KoHN, of Hartford, in. the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Chair-Seating; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and eX act description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents, in- Y Figure 1 a plan view of the seat, and in Fig. 2 a transverse section of a single strand.

This invention relates to an improvement in interlaced chair-seats, such as are commonly made with cane strips and and known as canese'ats; the object of the invention being to strengthen the seat and increase its durability; and it consists in the employment of strands of metal wire, of the peculiar form hereinafter described, interlaced and secured to the frame of the chair in substantially the same manner as for caneseating.

The wire employed may be of any suitable metal, as brass, copper, or iron, and is rolled into shape, a transverse section of which is shown in Fig. 2 magnified about ten times. The under surface is made flat, the upper surface convex,

the two surfaces rolling to a thin but not sharp edge, but so as to form a right angle upon the lower side, this right angle preventing the strands from slipping when interlaced. Wires of this form are arranged in the frame of the chair, and interlaced as in Fig. l-that is to sa i, in substantially the same manner as the process known as cane-seating. The wire may be left its natural color or plated with other metals, or tinted by other processes. The wire employed for ordinary seating may be very light, No. 22 being sufficiently large, and the seat be much stronger and more durable than cane-seating.

While entitling this invention and describing it for ohair-seating,1wish it to be understood as embracing all purposes for which the same interlacing of strands may be employed, as for chair-backs, carriage-work, and for other purposes.

I claim as my invention- The hereinclescribed seating, consisting of strands of wire of the form described, and interlaced substantially in the manner herein set forth.

MORRIS KOEN.

Witnesses:

J oHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TlBBi'rs. (62) 

